Spy x Family Episode 1 Review: The First Amazing Episode On Crunchyroll Real Our Review
Directed: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Stars: Takuya Eguchi, Atsumi Tanezaki, Saori Hayami
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4/5 (four star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
In March 2019, mangaka Tetsuya Endo returns to publish for the famous Shueisha publishing house. We are talking about Spy x Family, the spy comedy of Shonen Jump+ which has conquered its audience since its very first debut on the renowned magazine and which, to date, has exceeded 15 million copies sold.
Now, just a few years after its first publication, Spy x Family debuts in 2022 with its animated adaptation arrived in Italy thanks to the Crunchyroll streaming platform. The anime is made by the collaboration between Wit Studio and Clover Works or Horimiya two studies that we have come to appreciate and that make Spy x Family one of the most expected of this intense spring season.
Spy X Family Episode 1 The Story
It is now well known: the world is always, perpetually, hanging by a thread in perfect balance between peace and the bloodiest war. But it is precisely in moments of danger when that thin thread is likely to break those spies come into play, agents with immense skills trained to cope with any situation, and who better than the famous Twilight to avoid the threat of a new and looming war? A spy with excellent mnemonic, physical and disguising abilities, he takes the name of Loid Forger for a mission of extreme importance on which the fate of the whole world depends. Loid must get close to the almost unattainable target Donovan Desmond, leader of the national unity party of Ostania, the capital of the East.
To do this, the intrepid spy is forced to “start a family” with the aim of enrolling her “adopted daughter” in one of the most prestigious schools in the city to take advantage of the opportunity to get closer to her goal. Loid thus adopts Anya, a six-year-old girl who is discovered to possess telepathic powers. It is no coincidence that the little girl hides a dark past in which she was simply called by the mere name of “guinea pig 007” (a well-received quote for James Bond fans). But to keep up appearances and above all to move forward with Operation Strix, the family unit must be complete, therefore, in addition to little Anya, Loid will look for a wife, finding the right mother figure (without making too many spoilers) in a young woman with a bloodthirsty secret. Thus, “husband”, “wife” and “daughter” keep themselves respectively in the dark about their real identities, making the most of these little (big) secrets and slowly building a real family in which everyone will feel, for the first time in their life, at home.
Spy X Family Episode 1 Review And Analysis
As learned in our preview of the Spy x Family manga, the characters are extremely particular, with well-defined and characterized personalities. Furthermore, the contrasts that distinguish them are very interesting and that silently highlight the strengths and weaknesses of characters who seem all too perfect. We are talking about the protagonist Loid Forger: a super spy, the most famous and sought after on the continent, who however finds extreme difficulty in the everyday life of common life.
A clear clue that his extreme confusion towards his daughter is evoked, which leads him to analyze simple family interactions in detail and with too much rigidity, thus approaching, in an “unusual” and at times reckless way towards his fake close relatives. But by pointing the magnifying glass towards little Anya, we immediately realize that she is the real star of this first episode, able to bypass the adult figures of the adoptive parents and showing herself to be the real comic fulcrum of the family unit with a childish and capricious temperament (typical of any child of her age), but who knows how to give that warm sense of intimacy and sharing that is perceived in any common family, thus transforming the absurd situations in which the parent is employed in moments full of laughter and immense sweetness.
It is precisely the combination and harmony created between everyday life and “unreality” that is the founding strength of this story. Precisely because there is a perfect union between the normal routine of any home life, the extreme hilarity, conspiracies and action, that Spy x Family can be considered as the perfect product capable of amalgamating classic tale and original ideas. In short, a breath of fresh air that comes in times that are too full of quotations.
In this first episode, the collaboration between Wit Studio and CloverWorks has proved to live up to expectations, bringing to the small screen a product with light tones, from drawings faithful to the originals created by sensei Endo and spectacular from the point of view of animations thanks to the meticulous work by Kyoji Asano, who has worked on prominent works such as Psycho-Pass or the first seasons of Attack on Titan.
Although this first episode of Spy x Family gave the impression that all events happened too quickly with perhaps too rapid scene changes, there was certainly a deep emotionality that was able to transport the viewer in a whirlwind of emotion and curiosity. aroused by those little hidden clues from the past of the two protagonists. The need to have a bond is therefore the culmination of this first episode of Spy x Family, a detail on which the whole touching story (so far seen) of Loid and Anya Forger (played respectively by Takuya Eguchi and Atsumi Tanezaki) is based and that, accompanied by the sweet notes of Gen Hoshino ‘s ending “Kigeki”, they make you savor a sweet, ultimate taste of kindness and hilarious amiability.
Spy X Family Review: The Last Words
The first episode of Spy x Family expresses all the freshness and genuineness of a product that has been able to stand out within a highly saturated sector such as that of shonen manga, while maintaining strongly classic characteristics that contribute to making this work (together with the right dichotomy between comedy and seriousness) one of a kind.
